Carolina Tohá (Democratic Socialism), Jeannette Jara (PC), Gonzalo winter (FA) and Jaime Mulet (FRVS) are the candidates of the ruling party they will face in the Primary of June 29.
After registering on Wednesday the ‘Unit for Chile’ pact, the flag bearers of the center -left work intensely in their campaigns and have already begun to structure their respective teams for the internal elections, from which the candidate who represents the sector in November will come out, in the first round of the presidential election.
Tohá seeks transversality and Jara is anchored on the PC
The flag bearer of democratic socialism, Carolina Tohá, received at the last moment the support of the PS (after being proclaimed by the PPD, the PL and the PR), and it is expected that, in return, the party has an important role in its campaign team.
Previously, Tohá had incorporated the economist Francisca Pérezthe former minister of Economy of the government of Eduardo Frei Montalva, Álvaro Garcíato the mayor of Renca, Claudio Castroamong others.
The former minister of the interior indicated that her candidacy will not remain alone in the center -left, but that It will seek to represent “to the whole country behind a national look, of a project of progress, security, shared well -being”.
To the candidate of the Communist Party, Jeannette Jara, the general secretary of the PC, accompanies her as campaign spokesmen, Bárbara Figueroaand the mayors of the party Fares Jadue, Javiera Reyes and Joel Olmos.
In addition, the work team will also be made up of store leaders, militants who have previously worked with Jara and some independents.
The former minister of work explained that her focus will be to “put the improvement in the quality of life of people” with the center “A growth that, together with reaching the business sectors, reaches the table of all Chileans and Chileans”.
Winter claims to be the “continuity” of the government and Mulet appeals to the regions
The candidate of the Broad Front, Gonzalo Winter, appointed the deputy as campaign head Get yeomansteam to which it also joined Beatriz Sánchez and the mayor Tomás Vodanovic.
Deputy Winter stressed that his campaign will seek to point beyond the “legacy” of the current government, although he said that “Obviously we are of continuity”.
Jaime Mulet will have the work of the senator Esteban Velásquez as general campaign, leading the process together with Mónica SánchezNational Vice President of the Regionalist Regionalist Federation.
The main message of his campaign, according to Deputy Mulet, will be decentralization. “Development has to be territorially balanced. My candidacy will be the voice of those people who have always been excluded, ”he said.
On the other hand, it should be noted that, after not enrolling in primary school, Christian democracy dropped on Saturday the candidacy of Alberto Undurraga, so the possibility of the Falange was open to give its support to one of these four applicants. In that sense, Carolina Tohá would be the favorite within the DC, according to some party leaders.
